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Book SynopsisFor one hundred pounds, for example, you could either train one fiftieth of a guide dog in Britian, or save the sight of a thousand children through vitamin supplementation in sub-Saharan Africa.' Arthur sighed. That's not quite how the world works, dubbin.'It's how charity works.' Meet the Candlewicks Evangeline, 17, wants to change the world and despairs at the smug complacency of the rest of her family. Emil, 15 and a Maths prodigy, dabbles in narcotics and writes essays in German about the Unabomber. Yara, the mother, arrives at airports four hours early and fears that AI and climate change will leave her children unemployed and unable go outside for longer than 10 minutes. And, Arthur, the father, can't decide if he is a good person or a doormat, forgiving and understanding or weak and terrified. Their comfortable, if unsatisfactory, lives are thrown into disarray when Arthur walks out into the Gloucestershire countryside one night and falls down a disused mineshaft. Dis
